OAKLAND, Calif. — A former engineering director at Meta Platforms testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram. Arturo Béjar, a vocal critic of Meta’s safety record, made the allegation during his second day of testimony in a landmark...Read More
Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day OAKLAND, Calif. – The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, said in court on Tuesday that a feature introduced in 2021 to try to help teens regulate their time on the app had lower uptake than he had hoped...Read More
As cellphones continue to gain more and more popularity among teens, so is another practice called sexting. “Being that it has now become a tool more than anything, you want to make sure that you have access to your child’s device, so you can look through and check their text and Snapchat,” said Justin DeLaurier....Read More
Police have praised the courage of a victim of child sexual crimes who has described the “everyday trauma” she has lived with since the offences were committed. Defendant Frankie Nielsen was said to have initially sent sexually explicit messages to the secondary school-aged girl. But his abuse escalated and he then went on to twice...Read More
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used...Read More
Police say woman backed by Chinese financier recruited people to register limited partnerships Cybercrime police show an arrest warrant to a 31-year-old Thai woman accused of acting as an agent in a major corporate mule-account network backed by a Chinese financier, at a house in Phasicharoen district of Bangkok on Wednesday. (Photo: Cyber Crime Investigation...Read More
Representational Photo Leh- With cybercrime cases rising sharply across Ladakh in recent years, authorities are stepping up measures to strengthen prevention, investigation and response to digital fraud, online scams and other cyber-enabled financial crimes, officials said on Wednesday. Alongside enforcement measures, a growing network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), financial institutions and community stakeholders is joining...Read More
A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers. The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities...Read More
The ransomware group known as TheGentlemen has listed Glassdoor, a prominent US-based technology platform, as a victim on its leak site, claiming unauthorized access to the company’s systems and data. The claim appeared on August 30, 2026, and threatens to publish the alleged data once a 172-hour countdown expires. No independent verification of the breach...Read More
Iranian hackers have attempted cyberattacks on range of American infrastructure. Three Massachusetts incumbents win primary elections against much younger opponents. And the USS Lincoln arrives in Thailand after a record stint in the Middle East. Here’s what to know today. Iran attempted cyberattacks on a range of U.S. infrastructure, sources say Iranian hackers have targeted...Read More
